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BC novelist & zen priest Ruth Ozeki interview

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Chris Beal, at Buddhist Fiction Blog, has recently posted an interview with Ruth Ozeki about her new novel: A Tale for the Time Being. Read it AT THIS LINK.

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Tibetan Bibliographic Instruction Workshop at U of T

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Tibetan Bibliographic Instruction Workshop East Asian Library Classroom, 8th floor Robarts Library (130 St. George Street) Date: Tuesday, April 9 Time:  11am-12:15pm Led by Dr Lauran Hartley, Columbia University’s Tibetan Collection librarian and the U of T’s new Liaison librarian for Tibetan Studies (see story on this partnership), this will be a general session covering search-strategies... Read more »

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Danny Fisher reviews Charles Prebish’s memoir (published by Sumeru)

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Danny Fisher has written a thoughtful review of Charles Prebish’s book – An American Buddhist Life: Memoirs of a Modern Buddhist Pioneer – published by Sumeru in 2011, for the Journal of Global Buddhism. “Honestly (even, at times, surprisingly so) and engagingly written, An American Buddhist Life succeeds brilliantly at pioneering memoir as an absolutely essential area... Read more »

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Buddhapuja research by Sugunasiri now on YouTube

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This is to announce that the recent research on the Buddhapuja in Sinhala Buddhism and Arahant Mahinda as its Redactor by Prof. Suwanda H J Sugunasiri is now available on YouTube, hosted by www.torontobodymind.ca. Here is the URL: https://www.youtube.com/user/torontobodymind. Full text for FREE download: http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/search?q=sugunasiri&submit=Go&rep=tspc You may contact the author at suwanda.sugunasiri@utoronto.ca. BCC Presss Release re... Read more »

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Sugunasiri discusses his novel “Untouchable Woman’s Odyssey” in Lanka-focused arts mag from Toronto

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My Bindi, a Lankan arts, culture and lifestyle website based in Toronto, has recently posted an interview with Canadian Buddhist novelist, Suwanda Sugunasiri. Here’s the link: http://www.mybindi.com/articles/interview-with-suwanda-sugunasiri-author-of-untouchable-womans-odyssey The novel centres on a love relationship between two people struggling to overcome ethnic and caste barriers in post-colonial Sri Lanka (with a strong Buddhist rebirth angle).

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